A57975:405
Lex, Rex
Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the aid and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet entitled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelate. : with a scriptural confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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Answ. 1Though this be not the place due to the doctrine of Resistance, yet to vindicate the place; I s•y, there is not one word of any lawful remedy in the Text, only it is said, [Greek or Hebrew], Et cl•matis in illa die a faciebus regis vestri: It is not necessarily to be exponed of praying to God, Job 35.9. by reason of the multitude of the oppression, They make the oppressed to cry, [Greek or Hebrew] clamare faciunt, Isai. 15.4. And Heshbon shall cry. [Greek or Hebrew] The armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out. There is no other word here, then doth express the idolatrous prayers of Moab, Isai. 17.12. and Habak. 2.11. The stone shall cry out of the wall [Greek or Hebrew], Deut. 22.24. You shall stone the maid [Greek or Hebrew], because she cried not [Greek or Hebrew]; but she is not to be stoned, because she prayed not to God, Ps. 18.4. Davids enemies cried, and there was none to save, even to the Lord, and he heard not. 2. Though it were the Prophets meaning, they cried to the Lord, yet it is not the crying of a people humbled, and in faith speaking to God in their troubles, Zach. 7.13. They cried, and I will not hear, therefore Royalists must make crying to God out of the bitterness of affliction, without humiliation and faith, and such prayers of sinners as God heareth not, Psal. 18.41. Joh. 9.31. Isaiah 17.12. to be the only remedy of a people oppressed by a Tyrannous King; now it is certain, God prescribeth no unlawful means to an oppressed people, under their affliction, therefore it is clear here, that God speaketh only of evils of punishment, such as is to cry in trouble, and not be heard of God, and that he prescribeth here no duty at all, nor any remedy. 3. All Protestant Divines say; Ex particulari non valet argumentum negativé, from one particular place, a negative argument is not good. This remedy is not written in this particular place, therefore it is not written at all in other places of Scripture; so